Forest coverage is an important indicator of a country's ecological balance. In recent years, bushfires in Australia (80,000 square kilometers have been burned) and Canadian bushfires (16 square kilometers have been burned).40,000 square kilometers) has led to widespread destruction of the world's forests. Forests are restricted and affected by the geographical environment, the regional distribution is very unbalanced, the global forests are mainly concentrated in South America, Russia, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, today we will talk about the world's top ten countries in forest area.
1st place: Russia
The forest covers an area of 8.15 million square kilometers, accounting for about 45% of its land area, ranking first in the world, with a timber stock of 102.2 billion cubic meters, and is extremely rich in forest resources.
2nd place Brazil
The forest covers an area of 4.96 million square kilometers, accounting for 58 percent of its land area28%, timber reserves of 65.8 billion cubic meters, accounting for 1 5 in the world.
3rd place: Canada
The forest covers an area of 3.46 million square kilometers, accounting for 34 percent of its land area67%, ranking third in the world, after Russia and Brazil, accounting for 9% of the world's forest cover. About 2400 million hectares are usable timber forests.
Fourth place: United States
The forest covers an area of 3.09 million square kilometers, accounting for about 33 of the country's land area.
5th place: China
The forest area is 2.2 million square kilometers, accounting for about 23% of the national land area, and most of China's forest resources are concentrated in the northeast, southwest and other remote mountainous areas and southeast hills, and the northwest region is poor in forest resources.
6th place: Congo
The forest covers an area of 1.53 million square kilometers, accounting for 65% of its land area25%, accounting for 47% of the forest area of the entire African equatorial zone, and 6% of the world's tropical forest area5%, the Congo rainforest in the Congo Basin is the second largest primary forest in the world after the Brazilian Amazon primary forest.
7th place: Australia
The forest covers an area of 1.34 million square kilometers, accounting for 17 of its land area42%, and the majority of the tree species are eucalyptus.
8th place: Indonesia
The forest covers an area of 910,000 square kilometers, accounting for 47 percent of the country's land area55%, there are about 40,000 species of plants in Indonesia, of which medicinal plants are the most abundant.
9th place: Peru
The forest area is 72330,000 square kilometers, accounting for 56% of its land area, of which 94% is in the Amazon, but in recent years, the forest area has been severely damaged, and the forest area has been declining sharply.
10th place: India
The forest area is 72160,000 square kilometers, accounting for 24% of its land area.
Although China's forest area ranks among the top five in the world, but the forest coverage rate is only 23%, ranking 100 in the world, China's artificial afforestation area has continued to increase in recent years, but the land area is large, and the forest coverage rate is slow to improve. Up to now, China's forest coverage area of more than 50% of the provinces have Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hainan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, Taiwan and other provinces, the improvement of forest coverage is related to each of us, protect plants, plant more trees, improve the green environment everyone is responsible.
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